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A13574	A continuation of the lamentable and admirable adventures of Dom Sebastian king of Portugale With a declaration of all his time employed since the battell in Africke against the infidels 1578. vntill this present yeare 1603.	Teixeira, José, 1543-1604.	1603 (1603)	STC 23866; ESTC S101269	50,758	70

from my friends at Venice and Padua by which I vnderstand the Agent of that signiorie being resident in the Catholicke Kings Court hath written a letter to that State which hath bin opēly read at Pregay part of the contents whereof are That the Count Lemos Viceroy of Naples before his death wrote a letter to the King his maister wherein he did assure him that that prisoner which he caused to be sent him from the Duke of Tuscane vnder the name and title of a Calabrian was Dom Sebastian the very true King of Portugale which in the yeare 1578. lost the battell in Africke which he affirmed with many assured reasons and trials as hauing throughly examined him of diuers things wherein he had dealt with him both in Portugale and Castile This Viceroy neuer receiued answer of this letter in his life and therefore being then almost at the last gaspe for the disburdening of his soule he detected this secret to his sonne that succeeds in his place in the presence of his wife his confessour and diuers other persons of good account giuing him also a letter for the King wherein is ratified the same he spake before The new Viceroy sent to the Catholike king a noble man of the house of Manriques of whose house proceeded the Dukes of Najara This Siegnior he sent with his fathers letter it is reported that the King returned answer of the same letter to the Count Lemos commaunding him to intreate that prisoner well and take especial care that no disaster chanced vnto him These news inforced me to inlarge this treatise I would to God they were like to be true and that the Catholike King would answer his title with due correspondēcy to Christianitie according to his Christian stile by yeelding libertie to his Cosin-germaine and restoring all that to him belongeth which were an excellēt branch of honour and magnanimitie and an assured meane to settle Christendome in peace and to auoide the daunger of present warre which now the lowring heauens and malicious inclination of starres do assure vs to fall vpon vs. I confesse that so many extraordinary accidents do perswade me to expect a good issue out of all these troubles that may be both happie and profitable to the whole common-weale of Christendome Pleaseth it your Lordship to remember that about the infancie of our amitie I said that if the Portugals and the Castilians be not separated it will be impossible to maintaine a generall peace in Europe iustifying my opinion with many euident demonstrations and yet to this day I hold the same resolution in which many noble men both of the counsell and others of great calling do accord saying They from day to day see more apparant reasons so to iudge To that end do I dayly offer vp my sacrifices and earnest prayers to intreate the Almightie God that it may please him of his diuine mercie to inspire the hearts of all Christian Princes to combine in one knot to set this cause aright before the increase of more mischiefe for so much the longer as they deferre this good worke so much the greater will be the ruine of Portugale and perill of our vniuersall destruction Your noble Lordships humble seruant Fr. IOSEPH TEXERE Portugueze A NARRATION OF THINGS DONE BY DOM SEBASTIAN KING OF PORTVGAL since the battell he lost in the fields of Alquiber in Africke fighting against Muley Maluco an Infidell anno 1578. vntill this present time Written by Fr. Ioseph Texere Portugueze The Preface GEntle Reader forasmuch as I haue done you the fauour by my trauell to discouer in writing vnto you a Peregrination so much desired I shall intreate the like of you againe in giuing credite to that I will most faithfully deliuer vnto you concerning the naturall inclination of the Portugals and the disposition of the King The Portugals haue two especiall qualities happily differing from other nations which are as familiar to them as to laugh is proper to all men The first is they are extremely scrupulous of conscience the second they are exceeding constant in their resolutions especially when they are assured that they are warranted by the law of God and concerne his glorie for the first I will recommend vnto your iudgements two examples The first after the death of D. Henry supposed King of Portugale the succession of that kingdome being left to the inheritance of women came directly to D. Katherine Duchesse of Bragance daughter to the sonne of D. Duarte brother germaine to the said Henry who caused her title to be disputed of in the Vniuersitie of Coimbre which disputation was published in print and compiled in a booke confirmed by the hands of foureteene Doctours subscribing thereunto all whose sentences were pronounced in the fauour of the said Katherine The like censure was exhibited by the Doctors of Bologne Pisa other vniuersities in that part of Europe the succession of the said Realme of Portugale being adiudged to the same Katherine D. Iohn Duke of Bragance her husbād cosin germaine by reason whereof while the Cardinal liued being induced or rather informed by the Agents of D. Philip the second King of Castile not to publish the said D. Katherine to be his heire did respite the publication pretending that D. Katherine D. Anthonie and D. Philippo being all at once with other competitours to the crowne might set some variance among the people about the title leauing it to be censured after his death by certaine Iudges that he had appoined and named he sware to stand to the sentence of those Iudges and would not pronounce him King of Portugale himselfe but said it might be a meanes for him to come to the best assurance of the enterprise before any other for that he had on his part not onely the most of the Princes of Portugale descending from that line but also many cities and townes in that Realme whereof he was owner and Lord being aboue fifty with castles beside the citie of Bragance and had vnder his gouernement aboue two hundred thousand subiects of account by reason whereof he was the greatest and the richest Prince subiect among the Christian Princes of Europe Considering withall that out of the citie of Bragance and two other townes called Chaues which the Romaines termed AEquas Flauas he was able to make and bring into the field thirtie thousand men betweene the age of fiue and twentie and fiftie yeares And it is to be noted that the men bred in those parts be hard and valiant souldiers and haue bene so approued in the battels and victories which the Portugals haue had against the Spaniards by whom they haue bene often vanquished in ranged battels This Princes nice conscience was the cause why he extended not his force to defend his right but withdrew himselfe into a corner without purpose or intent to marrie either one or the other by which means he left the crowne to him in the right of his late wife and

not that I receiued also answer frō him And this Gētleman you may informe of all that hath past since that time if you thinke good and when Catizzone shal happen to come thither he may direct him couertly to this place where he may secretly giue me knowledge of the expedition in my affaires And for the loue you owe to the Almightie faile not one whit in a businesse to me of so great importance considering howe much it may auaile to bring my long trauailes to good end and weying that the Lords of Venice wil not be brought to the true period of iustice notwithstanding I haue oftentimes labored vnto thē to do me right and make me knowne personally to the world saying that if they finde me not to be D. Sebastian king of Portugale without fauor let them worthily punish me For all this sute they neither yet would nor will come to the center of my iust cause and wrongfull imprisonment saying that they loued not to be mocked and trifled withall offering alwayes very readily that if I would denie or not professe my selfe to be D. Sebastian c. they would set me at libertie c. Loue me still as I haue done you so farewel From Venice the 15. of April 1599. D. Sebastian King of Portugale Another Letter written by the foresaid Fr. Texere a Portugale to the same Bishop I Wrote to your excellent Lordship frō Venice the thirteenth of August and departed thence the eighteenth of the same being then not thoroughly well for which reason I made the way more long and tedious then I purposed I staied many daies at Soleurre because Monsieur de Vic would not let me passe vntill Monsieur de Sillery came to towne After whose comming he stayed me to see the order of that Towne in entertaining the Cantons and other prouincials at their first feast and this commaundement I could not well disobey This importunitie and such other were the impediments that I could not reach vnto Paris before the fourteenth of October Then presently I went to Fontaine Bleau to kisse his most Christian Maiesties hand who entertained me verie princely shewing himselfe glad of my safe returne For to tell you true I had no assured being but in Fraunce so offensiue and dangerous was the Spanish indignation vnto me At my returne from Fontaine Bleau I met with your Lordships Aduocate agent praying him to giue your Lordship aduertisement of my returne promising to write vnto your Lordship shortly after which I did not effect partly for mine vnapt disposition being vexed with slaunderous lyes and tales which mine enemies found occasion to spreade in my absence Who for the satisfaction of their malice hauing nēither care of the law of God nor of his feare sticke not to suppresse any troth to further the confusion of their neighbour or Christian brother And to gorge their wicked appetits respect neither the honor of the King his safetie nor the fiering of Portugale which they had lately kindled and disturbed and more then that being blinded in furie themselues thinke no man else can perceiue their intents be the matter neuer so plaine and manifest But of this theame let this suffise considering your L. is not ignorant of Castilian broiles At my first entrance into this place I found certaine letters written from Rome Venice Padua and other ordinarie passages in Italy all which gaue me credible intelligence that the King my Lord and maister liues and that he is well intreated in prison in the Castell De Ouo And my Romaine friend being ioyfull of my good newes wrote vnto me in this forme following Forasmuch as your afflictions daungers and trauailes haue receiued some hope of good euent and for that it is certaine that the troubles of those that feare God shall be conuerted into prosperitie so it may fall out that Haec olim meminisse iuuabit These words and tidings seemed very common and vulgar which being conferred with those things that fel out happily in Rome for the good of my Soueraigne I conceiued great hope yet once again to see him reestablished in his kingdome By the same letter I vnderstand that my intelligence hath bred him great contentment and that also he conceiued no lesse pleasure by those copies which I sent him to present vnto his Highnesse which were the transcripts of those I sent your Lordship from Venice which proue that Marco Tullio Catizzone is one and Dom Sebastian another A Doctor and a friend of mine dwelling at Lions shewed me a letter which a French gentleman his inward friend of good calling dwelling in Rome after he had recorded many things concerning the King my maister reuealed as followeth The Count of Lemos Viceroy of Naples is very fauourable to Dom Sebastian his prisoner honouring him very much allowing him some small libertie which when he heard that the King of Castile tooke in ill part he began presently to restraine and kept him sporter When he was allowed to heare Masse amongst other prisoners they did honor him with much reuerence saying among themselues that they discouered in his countenance and cariage a princely Maiestie And without all question he must needs be Dom Sebastian the King of Portugale or some diuell in his likenesse The Viceroy as it is said craued licence of the King of Castil to go into Spaine because in Naples he could not recouer his health which the King would in no wise grant him There be other letters sent into these parts not from Portugals or any other by their appointment the contents whereof are here expressed Heretofore it hath bene lawfull and tollerable for this prisoner that termed himselfe D. Sebastian King of Portugale to speake with any Portugals or men of other nations that desired to see the said prisoner that said they had seene him before and sithence they verified him to be Dom Sebastian the true king of Portugal he is more straightly kept from the sight and speech of any then before Another letter hauing recounted something concerning this King addeth The Count Lemos lying in his death bed about the last of October said to his sonne in the presence of his wife and diuers other prisoners that he should looke well to the place and charge he had both of the Viceroyship and his prisoners for you see said he that I am vpon the point to go to God to render account for that I haue done during my life and here I must cease and end my worldly businesse for the disburdening of my soule and conscience I protest that this prisoner here whom the vulgar call a Calabrian is the very true Dom Sebastian lawfull King of Portugale I know it assuredly hauing examined him and for that I haue had often conference with him before his imprisonment Therefore I commaund and intreat you to vse him well This done he gaue him a letter which said he is written to his Maiestie I meane the Catholicke King touching these affaires